MARCH 2022

VOlUME 05 ISSUE 03 MARCH 2022
Factors Influencing Academic Performance and Achievement of Students with Disabilities
Abdulhameed Hasan Talafha
Department of Special Education - College of Education - Umm Al-Qura University(2022)
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i3-24

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Abstract

Students with disabilities face diverse challenges which greatly affect their access and full participation in academic programmes at academic institutions of all levels. Therefore, the aim of the current empirical study is to identify the factors influencing the academic performance and achievement of disabled students. The study was guided by the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). Based on the review of the relevant literature, the study concluded that there are several factors that influence the academic performance and achievement of students with disabilities such as: emotional factors such as the disabled students’ fear, depression, low self-confidence, feelings of shame, withdrawal, low self-concept, and feelings of inferiority. Moreover, other factors include the disabled student’ family background along with their socio-economic status, the educational level of the parents, the lack of the parents’ encouragement and motivation, the authoritarian nature of some families of students with disabilities, the negative attitudes of some teachers towards the students with disabilities and the weakness of the instructional strategies implemented by the teachers, the societal attitudes towards disabled students and well as the students’ attitudes towards themselves, the physical barriers within the academic institutions’ environment, etc. finally, multiple detailed solutions and recommendations were suggested by the study.

Keywords

learner with disability, academic performance, special needs education, parents’ contribution, school facilitation contribution, Self-efficacy.

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